The mechanisms underlying the ASD advantage in visual search

Z Kaldy, I Giserman, AS Carter, E Blaser - Journal of autism and …, 2016 - Springer
A number of studies have demonstrated that individuals with autism spectrum disorders
(ASDs) are faster or more successful than typically developing control participants at various …

Implications of the idea of neurodiversity for understanding the origins of developmental disorders

N Masataka - Physics of Life Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Neurodiversity, a term initially used mostly by civil and human rights movements since the
1990s, refers to the notion that cognitive as well as emotional properties characteristic of …

Psychometric properties of the autism-spectrum quotient for assessing low and high levels of autistic traits in college students

JL Stevenson, KR Hart - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017 - Springer
The current study systematically investigated the effects of scoring and categorization
methods on the psychometric properties of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient. Four hundred and …

Pupillometry reveals a mechanism for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) advantage in visual tasks

E Blaser, L Eglington, AS Carter, Z Kaldy - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Research on the neural underpinnings of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has focussed
primarily on impairments of social interaction and communication. Less is known though …

Embedded figures test performance in the broader autism phenotype: a meta-analysis

SJ Cribb, M Olaithe, R Di Lorenzo, PD Dunlop… - Journal of Autism and …, 2016 - Springer
People with autism show superior performance to controls on the Embedded Figures Test
(EFT). However, studies examining the relationship between autistic-like traits and EFT …

Support for a link between the local processing bias and social deficits in autism: An investigation of embedded figures test performance in non-clinical individuals

SN Russell-Smith, MT Maybery, DM Bayliss… - Journal of autism and …, 2012 - Springer
The aim of this investigation was to explore the degree to which specific subsets of autistic-
like traits relate to performance on the Embedded Figures Test (Witkin et al. in A manual for …

Impaired global, and compensatory local, biological motion processing in people with high levels of autistic traits

JJA Van Boxtel, H Lu - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are hypothesized to have poor high-level
processing but superior low-level processing, causing impaired social recognition, and a …

Visual search in ADHD, ASD and ASD+ ADHD: overlapping or dissociating disorders?

D Seernani, K Damania, C Ioannou, N Penkalla… - European child & …, 2021 - Springer
Recent debates in the literature discuss commonalities between Attention-
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Beta event-related desynchronization as an index of individual differences in processing human facial expression: further investigations of autistic traits in …

NR Cooper, A Simpson, A Till, K Simmons… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The human mirror neuron system (hMNS) has been associated with various forms of social
cognition and affective processing including vicarious experience. It has also been …

Evidence for distinct cognitive profiles in autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment

LJ Taylor, MT Maybery, L Grayndler… - Journal of autism and …, 2014 - Springer
Findings that a subgroup of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have linguistic
capabilities that resemble specific language impairment (SLI) have led some authors to …